This shit always pisses me off:
The white culture of thinking you can identify as a person of color simply because you like something about that culture.
Whites are damned either way. You like a foreign culture? Then you're some creepy poser or cultural colonizer. Don't like another culture? Then you're racist.
I'll get worked up about "cultural appropriation" the day it's consider as offensive for the Japanese to wear a t-shirt as it would be for a group of Americans to wear kimonos.
Funny how a group that makes up 50.5% of the population gets preferential minority status.
I can't speak to other countries, but in the US, there's actually a strategic reason to prop up airlines. The law allows the government to commandeer their services in time of war, so there's basically a huge air force of transport aircraft in reserve.
Sports stadiums are just a pure grift though. They promise tax revenue at restaurants and hotels driven by spectators, but it takes a lot of sales tax to raise the millions of dollars the government spends to subsidize the stadium. I also think government officials view there being a certain prestige and having a professional sports team, so they cater to the owners in order to get or keep one- it's not their money after all.
I think this is more like the tagline from Aliens vs. Predator: "Whoever wins, we lose".
JK Rowling is a serious feminist who supports their movement financially. She's got no problem with gays, she just doesn't want men getting in on those sweet gynocentric gibs by chopping their dick off.
I get it, Harry Potter has a serious following from people who are the right age when the books came out. I think if you're a fan, this is just another case where you're going to have to separate the author from their work because JK Rowling is no friend of ours.
As would be a conventional war with NATO, who would most assuredly impose "regime change" on Russia after fucking them up nicely.
Given that probability, the most effective defensive strategy is to to say "if any of your new flunkies fuck with me I'll kill us all". Mutually assured destruction kept the peace during the cold war.
The argument Feminists and MRAs would make (and to some extent they'd both be correct), is that men and women aren't treated equally under the law (or society in general)
The issue I have is that this is true; most laws favor women if they a favor a gender at all, yet these so-called "women's rights advocates" are trying to con everyone into believing that they're the equivalent of a 1905 suffragette. The men's rights movement is a direct response to society moving the benchmark past neutrality and into gynocentricity.
This double standard is evident to anyone who cares to pay attention, such as the outcry of "it's never OK to hit a woman" whenever we see a video of a complete bitch assaulting her boyfriend or husband and then he has the gall to fight back.
Can he just shut the fuck up for one second? He's got to be annoying even people that really do support Ukraine at this point.
And the fucking green t-shirt all the time. He looks like he's an instructor in a CrossFit video instead of the leader of a country. I get that he's pushing the whole "wartime president" schtick, but you didn't see Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt wearing gym clothes.
Which is stupid. "An attack on one is an attack on all" works both ways.
There's nothing that says Russia has to wait for the rest of NATO to declare war or mobilize against it if it gets into a border skirmish with Finland, or Poland, or Latvia, or... They have ample justification to immediately glass DC and London at the first sign of hostilities as NATO's slogon means in for a penny, in for a pound. Nobody wins in a nuclear war, so setting up a tripwire to start one is like shooting yourself in the foot.
One would think that the US and other Western European powers wouldn't want to put so much risk of another world war in the hands of a bunch of bum-fuck Eastern European countries. Unless they plan on reneging on the pact (which is absolutely something the US would do if it suits them). The problem is that Russia has no way of knowing when they will follow through and when they won't.
We'll let them join. Hell, we want them to join. At this point it's less about a military alliance against Russia and more about surrounding them with declared enemies to enforce that they are a pariah state.
The real question is what is this supposed to accomplish? NATO was a military alliance opposing the Soviet Union. After the end of communism, Russia had neither the means nor the desire to conquer Western Europe, yet NATO continued to grow. Certainly, relations have soured and both sides are at fault, but having a military alliance that is basically every other country in Europe versus Russia is unnecessary and petty.
Perfect. Now change the name to "Dr. What?" And you're on to something.
Anyone trying to access online pornography in Louisiana must prove their age using a government ID, thanks to a new state law that went into effect at the beginning of the year.
Sharing your driver's license with some sketchy porn site? Sounds smart to me. Also, I guess Louisiana never heard of a web proxy.
I remember thinking at the time that the weird thing is that his Nazi costume was supposed to be the Afrikakorps. Which he might have almost gotten away with, as they fought honorably, didn't have any SS units, and have a "cleaner" image than the continental German army- except he wore a red swastika armband, which was not a part of any German army uniform in WWII.
I thought it was weird at the time, and it's still weird when I see the little picture here.
I don't know anything about YouTube other than watching an occasional video, so help me understand this.
If I post a video and someone says they own the copyright to something in it, YouTube just redirects my money to them without any sort of appeal process? What happens if they don't actually own the copyright or it's legally fair use, does YouTube pull that money back out of their account and return it to me?
On another note, what kind of releases are typical for things like panel discussions? I would assume the panel participants give the host the right to reproduce and televise the panel, but I would also assume that they retain the rights to their own image and statements from the panel.
How many employees does Amazon have? That seems like a lot of HR people, and you know they're not firing all of them.
Q: Can't Wizards of the Coast change the License in a way that I wouldn't like?
A: Yes, it could. However, the License already defines what will happen to content that has been previously distributed using an earlier version, in Section 9. As a result, even if Wizards made a change you disagreed with, you could continue to use an earlier, acceptable version at your option. In other words, there's no reason for Wizards to ever make a change that the community of people using the Open Gaming License would object to, because the community would just ignore the change anyway.
LoL. They themselves said you can use an earlier version of the license at your option. This appears to be a paper tiger, tantamount to Disney sending cease and desist letters to people wearing Mickey mouse costumes at their kids birthday party.
I don't want to go to court over it, but Paizo might given that their Pathfinder game is based on the OGL. I doubt they're going to just fold up shop.
They may be interested in the custom licenses that the article talks about, but likely only if they deem it to be less than the cost of litigating or they don't like their chances of winning.
The original OGL granted “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive license” to the Open Game Content (commonly called the System Resource Document) and directed that licensees “may use any authorized version of this License to copy, modify and distribute any Open Game Content originally distributed under any version of this License.” But the updated OGL says that “this agreement is…an update to the previously available OGL 1.0(a), which is no longer an authorized license agreement.”
I'm pretty sure that once you grant a perpetual license it cannot be revoked. Perpetual does mean "forever" after all. My suspicion is if they tried shut down competitors using material under the original license a court would say that the revised license only extends to WOTC content introduced after it went into effect.
"The Ukrainians...deh waz kangz, just like us!"
I think the first place drones will proliferate is the military.
As long as the communications to the drone are secure, it's superior to a manned fighter aircraft in every way (no physiological limitations on extreme maneuvers, no oxygen and other life support systems, no need for CSAR if shot down, etc.)
Most of those advantages are irrelevant in non-combat aircraft. Setting up all the systems to fly the plane remotely probably isn't much more cost-effective than having the pilot onboard, and automating the process is risky for the same reason AI art has malformed hands with too many or too few fingers. Computers can be programmed, but they can't identify and avoid stupid-simple mistakes like a person.
Her popularity (if she has any left) must be from the States alone
She's a C-list actress and divorcee with daddy issues. I think the only show she did was Suits, which I didn't watch. She wasn't really known here prior to getting involved with the royal family.
It's a vicious cycle- these people leave places like California and New York because of the high cost of living, then they vote for the same laws and same taxing schemes in their new location.
Translation: fringe identity groups are looking to appropriate D&D for their own purposes.
But even within these gaming communities, there is some friction. Old School Renaissance, or OSR, is a gaming movement whose players claim they are “against outside politics permeating their game space,” said Dashiell. These players support the use of traditional fantasy tropes in game design, such as the existence of “good” and “evil” races with no nuance. OSR gamers are often seen as the old guard of tabletop gaming and tend to idealize the past, which “defaults to a white, masculine worldview,” Trammell said.
Oh no, look at these horrible luddites who just want to play the games as they always have! You know, they're basically white supremacists.
It pisses me off that space's such as video games, RPGs, anime, etc. Have now become mainstream, and everyone is rushing to kick out the group of people that have been interested in them since day one in favor of whatever LGBTQABCXYZ group is bleating for attention this particular moment.
The 10th circuit ruled on a similar case this summer. In that one, it was a high school student, and the post was real. They said he can sue the public school for 1st and 14th Amendment violations. I would assume if this guy went to a public university he would be good to go as well.
The left eats its own. You will never be ideologically pure enough for them.
More oppressive police state: Soviet Russia or modern UK? You make the call.